| Kaniów | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Coordinates: | 50.8306°N 17.8356°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland#Poland Opole Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Opole Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Opole County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Popielów |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Registration Plate: | OPO |
Kaniów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Popielów, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]
The village is traditionally inhabited by the Leśnioki ethnographic subgroup of the Polish people.
In the Middle Ages, the village was part of Piast-ruled Poland, and afterwards it was also part of Bohemia (Czechia), Prussia and Germany. During World War II, the Germans operated a forced labour camp for Jews[2] and the E608 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.[3] The village was restored to Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.